In The Land of Blood and Tears. Events in Mesopotamia During World War (1914-1918)

In The Land of Blood and Tears. Events in Mesopotamia During World War (1914-1918)

In The Land of Blood and Tears. Events in Mesopotamia During World War (1914-1918)

Author: Jakob Kunzler


Jakob Künzler (March 8, 1871 – January 15, 1949) was a Swiss who resided in an oriental mission in Urfa and who witnessed the Armenian Genocide.

Born in Hundwil, Switzerland, he worked in the canton Appenzell and made a living as a carpenter. Afterwards he was trained in Basel as an evangelist deacon (Krankenpfleger). In 1899 he traveled to Urfa in Turkey, where he found his own place to work. He continued to study medicine until he became an independent operating surgeon, and later in 1905 he married Elizabeth Bender, daughter of a Christian missionary and granddaughter of an Ethiopian princess.